There are some nice articles on the internet telling you how to improve your Apache HTTP server’s performance. I did my bit on FreeBSD land. While turning on a different MPM than the prefork default one increases Apache HTTP performance by a lot, it is not the only thing one may do. For example if you are just running a single server for a small website or shop enabling the … [Read more...]
How to install Suricata on FreeBSD
Suricata is a free, open source, Intrusion Detection System software, or IDS for short. But it can also act as an Intrusion Prevention System, or IPS. It works by finding patterns using heuristics typically from network traffic. When configured to just warn about suspicious activity it is called an IDS, however when it blocks the traffic because of the pernicious activity it is … [Read more...]
Linus on ZFS
Disclaimer: What you are about to read may contain inaccuracies. Feel free to discuss them somewhere else. This is also my opinion and as such it may change through time, maybe tomorrow, next month, next year, next decade or never. I do also make very few reviews (if any) of what I write here so this article won’t be polished by any means and it is coming out of my mind and gut … [Read more...]
Linux VS open source UNIX
Feature name Linux FreeBSD OpenBSD TrustedBSD NetBSD Illumos Native File System Support Ext2/3/4 UFS UFS UFS UFS UFS (read only) XFS ZFS ZFS ZFS JFS Btrfs ZFS Support Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Native ZFS No Yes No Yes No Yes Boot … [Read more...]
Reasonable amount of enabled modules on Apache HTTP
CentOS Ubuntu FreeBSD core_module (static) core_module (static) core_module (static) so_module (static) so_module (static) so_module (static) http_module (static) watchdog_module (static) http_module (static) access_compat_module (shared) http_module (static) mpm_prefork_module (shared) actions_module (shared) log_config_module … [Read more...]